POP EXPRESSIONIST PAINTER, DON HARTMANN IN HIS STUDIO
Art Vérité
Art Vérité is content from Juniper Rag, a digital platform from Atelier ID Global, showcasing visual art, design, and creative culture known for its edgy, avant-garde approach to art and lifestyle, bridging traditional and contemporary art with a strong focus on emerging and innovative artists. Our content combines our critical commentary (purely, our opinions) with thought provoking articles, some guest writers—all connecting with creative audiences, tastemakers, visual enthusiasts and culture seekers.
Juniper Rag’s ability to stand out lies in our unique dedication to community building, accessible, digital exhibitions, and socially engaged, message-driven content that we hope incentivizes artists, collectors and orgs that align with creatives.
TO OUR FRIENDS,
We will be publishing our juiciest blog content to Substack soon—
please find us there so you are all settled in when the transition happens!
Mom & Pop | deGrandpre & deDeSalvo
Mom & Pop with Monica DeSalvo and Patty deGrandpre is closing June 25. Go see it!
PRIDE in our TRIBE
Juniper Rag is celebrating another PRIDE month for 2023. We support LGBTQIA and BIPOC communities in our mission to elevate artists and share their work with the world. We are allies and we are your tribe every day. Our collaborative partner this month is Love Your Labels.
About Face Results Are In!
FOUNTAIN STREET’S ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, ABOUT FACE. Juried by Michelle May and Payal Thiffault, founders of JUNIPER RAG
Slow Art Day, Worcester
For Worcester, this was our sixth Slow Art Day, held on April 16 at The White Room Gallery in Worcester, Massachusetts. The event was hosted by Payal Thiffault and Michelle May of Juniper Rag magazine, who are tow of the founding hosts from the very first Slow Art experiment of 2009. An in-person event was organized and the invitation was also extended to artists, whose work was on exhibition at TORRID | Abstract Impressions.
Digital Art Will Change the Future
Our world as we know it has been changing at an exponential rate since the beginning stages of the. First we could read information from the web, then we could interact with it, and then we could add to the dialogue by interacting personally with the web and the world at large. Creatively, the scope of our reality has shifted as well.
Art Collecting 101
So, you are interested in buying art, but you are not quite sure where to begin…
List People Rule
Tim Doyle, Worcester Business Journal inspires a list of accomplishments for Juniper Rag
Madge Evers Innovates with “The New Herbarium”
In spring 2019, artist Madge Evers saw Emily Dickinson’s “Herbarium” for the first time.
Juniper Rag, On Fire In 2022
Payal Thiffault, Michael Bobbitt and Michelle May at Origin, JMAC Worceter
Leveraging Your Online Art Community
Leveraging your online community to push your art career forward. We can’t light a fire under every artist to use social media, but we can share strategies and success stories.
Studio Time | Don Hartmann
Don Hartmann is a figurative artist with a very colorful life who carries a vintage suitcase full of color crayons. He is always surrounded by laughter and artful conversations — talk of poetry or music, like Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Sex Pistols or a little Replacements.
Infernalis | Tara Sellios
As artists in the Baroque period did, I intend to arouse an internal response in the viewer by making imagery that marries the harsh and intense with the elegant and seductive. -Sellios
De La Part De Qui Venez-Vous?
This is a question proposed by Gertrude Stein when people rang her atelier doorbell for salon at 27 rue de Fleurus. Like a spy needs a password, a guest had to provide a name. The valuable art collection she and her brother Leo collected …
Collecting Art for Beginners: 7 Pointers
For many people curious about collecting art, it can be a very intimidating process. Anything you try for the first time is venturing into the unknown.
Tortured Separation, Ukraine, 2022
Art by Wendy Sellers on view at Nearby Gallery in Newton, Ma
A Poetic Correction // REDEMPTION, Jennifer Davis Carey
Drana with blue suit, beautiful period attire, vitreous enamel added on steel daguerreotype (re-contextualized)
All images © Jennifer Davis Carey, photographed by Michelle May
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